Holographic & Water-Vapour Fireplaces
No flue, no fuel. Fire where a chimney was never possible: the apartment, the inside wall, the room the building was never going to let you vent.
The first fireplaces we can install almost anywhere
Every other fireplace in the collection needs a way out of the building. These two do not. The Aquafire makes its flame from lit water vapour: a fine mist rising through light, moving exactly as fire does, running on tap water and giving off no heat at all. The Ergofocus Holographik® takes Dominique Imbert’s suspended, pivoting Ergofocus and puts flames inside it produced in three dimensions by a holographic system, with the crackle of wood and nothing leaving the room but the sound. Neither has a flue, a gas line or an emission.
That opens rooms that were closed. The apartment with a strata that will not allow a vent; the inside wall with nowhere to run a flue; the restaurant, the lobby, the room the building’s structure was never going to give a chimney to. The Aquafire sits in a wall, a cabinet or a piece of furniture; the Holographik® hangs from the ceiling like the Ergofocus it is built on, and it is on display in our showroom.
Because these fires do not need a vent, the question is only where they should be. That is a design conversation as much as a technical one, and it is one Maxwell Fireplace has with you: choosing between the two, drawing the fire on the wall or the ceiling, planning the water for the Aquafire and the structure for the Holographik®, and installing it with our own crew. The cabinetry, the ceiling detail or the wall around it we plan together with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in. Send us a photograph of the room that could never have a fireplace and we will show you how it can.
The flameless fires we feature
Each one has its own page. Read the story, then come and see it.
Aquafire
All flame, no fire — a water-vapour fireplace of lit mist that runs on tap water, gives off no heat, and can be placed where a real fire never could.
Ergofocus Holographik®
Fire, without the fire — Dominique Imbert’s suspended, pivoting Ergofocus with flames produced in three dimensions by a holographic system, the crackle of wood, and no flue, no fuel, no emissions: the first fireplace we can install almost anywhere. On display in our showroom from September 2026.
Questions people tend to ask
Do they give off heat?
No. The Aquafire’s flame is cool mist and the Holographik’s is light; both are fire to look at rather than fire to warm by. For a room that is already warm, or a summer evening, that is the point.
Are they safe to touch?
There is nothing in either to burn a hand or catch a curtain, which is why they can go in places a real fire never could: a child’s reach, a bookcase, a hotel corridor.
What do they need?
Power, and for the Aquafire, water: it runs on ordinary tap water, filled by hand or plumbed in where the installation allows. No gas, no flue, and no permit for a vent, because there is none.
Do they look real?
Come and see. The movement is what convinces people, and no photograph carries it. The Holographik® is on display in our showroom.
A fireplace is only half of it. The other half is who places it.
Maxwell Fireplace is North Vancouver’s Creative FireSpaces™ — and we stay involved in every part of the job. The fireplace itself is ours from the first conversation to the final flame: design and placement, permitting, delivery, installation, and the care that comes after. When the work runs to a surround, a mantel, tile or millwork, we plan it with the trades doing it — yours, or ones we bring in — so the fire and the wall are drawn as one thing rather than two. One point of contact, and nothing lost in the gap between trades.
It’s exactly why a flameless fire belongs with us. A fire with no flue only pays off if it was placed where the room wanted it rather than where a chimney allowed, the ceiling or the cabinet was planned for it, and the water and the power were run before the finish went on — and that is the difference between an appliance and a centrepiece. We serve homeowners and contractors across Greater Vancouver, the North Shore, and the Sea to Sky Corridor — Squamish to Whistler and Pemberton — and we’d love to show you what’s possible for the room that could never have a fireplace.